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jeanyoon.ch@oi /oi % cat multiple-globes

Multiple Globes

2025-04-15

Environmental and social data often appear on a globe: a single Earth carrying one layer of information. GRACE, SWOT, and flight visualisations suggest familiar examples. What happens if the globe itself is multiplied?

Multiplicity adds another dimension of comparison. A two-dimensional map gains a further axis through its neighbours; a three-dimensional globe can sit among alternative scenarios. Instead of treating one globe as the world, we could encounter several possible worlds at once.

In one version, each participant has a globe. A button, voice input, phone rotation, or another simple gesture introduces a speculative change. The globe develops accordingly: one flourishes, another deteriorates. A unit might combine the globe with supporting graphs, or switch between them when needed. Many such units would form a larger arrangement. The aim would be an intuitive, playful experience, perhaps for children, rather than complexity for its own sake. Comparison might even introduce a sense of competition.

Another version could use multiple data-rich globes to present different scenarios. A grid of twelve might arrange more favourable, intermediate, and severe conditions in separate rows. Participants would act on the system, and different outcomes could appear across the globes. Scrolling or adjusting a control could move through time and immediately alter the visualised data. Each globe would remain legible as a unit while contributing to a larger system.

A grid is not the only possibility. Globes could nest inside one another, unfold like citrus peel, or roll and collide like balls on a billiard table. Each arrangement would create different relationships between comparison, play, and comprehension.

What matters is that these visualisations remain active. The data should not feel like a static inscription on a sphere, but like something continuously changing: a multiplied, many-sided encounter with a living system.

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